
With the United States probing the possibility of thawing the social freeze from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories plan to start slowly ramping up on-site work this month. The labs, run by DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), manage ongoing nuclear weapon refurbishments planned to keep the U.S. arsenal war-ready through the middle of the century, and beyond. Los Alamos for now remains in a mission-critical operations posture, limiting on-site work…